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a mile south of Mulvane. He told me that a year a<;o a number of bogs 

 were shipped into Mulvane, coming- from the State of Iowa. Several of 

 them broke out of the yards and had the run of the town for several 

 days. They got in with some hogs belonging to Mr. Hill, of Mulvane; 

 soon afterward Mr. Hill's hogs began to sicken and to die, Mr. Kucker's 

 hogs escaped from their x){isturage and got in with Hill's hogs, rooted 

 around, and probably ate of some of the dead ; in seven or eight days 

 Mr. llucker's hogs became sick, and many of them died — he lost 2.1 per 

 cent. Ten females recovered, and were kept until this spring, but failed 

 to breed. Last spring Mr. Rucker bought 110 head of liogs from his 

 neighbors, and placed them on the same grounds where the hogs had 

 died the year previous. In the month of June they began to die; and 

 this time he lost, including small pigs and shoats, 150 head. Ten of 

 them were large, fat hogs. Estimate of loss, $800. I then saw Mr. E. 

 A. Kennedy, who lives 3 miles south of Mulvane. He lost this year 150 

 out of 350 head of hogs, 50 of them being large heavy animals. Esti- 

 mate of value, $1,000. Mr. Smith, a neighbor to Kennedy, also lost a 

 large number of hogs this year. All the hogs in these three different 

 herds have been indirectly exposed to the imported hogs, or to each 

 other. From the description of the symptoms of the disease, as given 

 me by Messrs. Rucker and Kennedy, I conclude that the disease has 

 been true hog cholera; but none were sick or recently died, therefore 

 no opportunity was afforded me to establish the nature of the disease 

 positively. 



OUTBREAK OF SOUTHER^^ CATTLE FEVER IX BUTLER 



COUNTY, KANSAS. 



In your instructions of the 9th of October, you referred me to Sena- 

 tor P. B. Plumb, of Emporia, for information in relation to the locality 

 of a disease among cattle in Butler County. I addressed a letter of 

 inquiry to Senator Plumb, dated , the 13th of October, and received the 

 following reply: 



Washington, D. C, October 20, lSH:i. 

 Dear Sir: Ydurs of the 13th has just reached me. I do not know exactly whom to 

 suggest that you call upon hi Butler County for information about cattle disease, 

 but if you call on Hon. A. L. Redden at El Dorado, or Hon. Neil Wilkie, at Douglas, 

 they can put you on the track. 

 Respectfully, 



P. B. PLIMB. 

 M. R. Trumbower, V. S., 



Harper, Kans. 



After the receipt of Senator Plumb's letter, I addressed the parties 

 referred to and received answers from both, stating that I should go 

 to El Dorado to find what I desired. I reached El Dorado on the 7th 

 of November, and proceeded to Hon. Redden's office, but found hinj 

 absent ; his clerk took me to the bank of El Dorado and introduced me 



